whoops, sending to list as well! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> Date: 2010/1/6 Subject: Re: The (Casual) Game Support Report in Wine (Jan 2009) To: Reece Dunn <msclrhd(a)googlemail.com> 2010/1/5 Reece Dunn <msclrhd(a)googlemail.com>:
2/ the major issues appear to be in the application launchers used by different game providers (most of which are in the current wine implementation of the IE browser ActiveX control);
Curious question: you tested with IE6, how do things work if you install IE7? Any better? (I installed IE7 with winetricks to see if I could get the ActiveX control for our work VPN going. It didn't work, and I didn't expect it to - it uses ActiveX to completely take over and try to secure a Windows installation, and I think it just recoiled in horror when it found itself in Wine on Linux - but I routinely use it now to check website rendering. It's really horrible. But useful.) - d.